Joffrey, Robert (oh) and frieze (sh)

Joffrey, Robert (oh)

(1930-1988) an American ballet dancer and Choreographer (=someone who arranges how dancers will move) . He started the American Ballet Centre, a school for dancers, in 1953, and a ballet group in 1956. His ballet group later became the Joffrey Ballet, one of the most important ballet groups in the US.

frieze (sh)

Any long, narrow, horizontal panel or ornamental band used for decorative purposes around the walls of a room or exterior walls of a building.

In Greco-Roman architecture it is a horizontal band, often decorated with relief sculpture, between the architrave and cornice of a building. The most famous decorative frieze is on the outer wall of the Parthenon in Athens, a 525-ft (160-m) representation of the ritual procession of the Panathenaic festival.

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